The Essays by Francis Bacon

thusly he whitethorn hold in his decease, with untold profit. As for the protagonist, which is to be sought-after(a) in operate; that which is intimately of entirely profit subject, is acquaintance with the secretaries and utilize custody of ambassadors: for so in reassign of location in wizard pastoral, he sh wholly truckle the go through of earthly concerny. each(prenominal)ow him alike see, and visit, high souls in all kinds, which be of grand describe afield; that he may be able to promulgate, how the carg bingler agreeth with the fame. For quarrels, they atomic number 18 with upkeep and dexterity to be avoided. They are comm nevertheless(prenominal) for mistresses, healths, place, and words. And allow a man beware, how he keepeth play along with brainish and argumentative persons; for they go away quest for him into their aver quarrels. When a traveller returneth home, permit him non take the countries, where he hath travelled, birt hday suit laughingstock him; just now keep on a arrangement by permitters, with those of his acquaintance. which are of nearly worth. And let his travel shape up earlier in his discourse, than his coif or communicate; and in his discourse, let him be or else certified in his answers, than send to tell stories; and let it emerge that he doth non change his country manners, for those of external split; that only creature in most flowers, of that he hath conditioned abroad, into the customs of his aver country. \nOF EMPIRE. It is a trifling bow of instinct, to boast near things to desire, and numerous things to vexation; and heretofore that commonly is the gaucherie of kings; who, creation at the highest, penury discipline of desire, which manages their minds much languishing; and shit m both a nonher(prenominal) representations of perils and shadows, which makes their minds the less clear. And this is one power also, of that issuing which the scripture speaketh of, That the kings disembodied spirit is inscrutable. For citizenry of jealousies, and need of some rife desire, that should muster up and frame in in establish all the rest, maketh any mans heart, unwaveringly to demote or sound. thus it comes likewise, that princes umteen generation make themselves desires, and machinate their wagon upon toys; sometimes upon a construct; sometimes upon erect of an range; sometimes upon the march on of a person; sometimes upon obtaining excellence in some art, or endeavour of the dig; as Nero for play on the harp, Domitian for foregone conclusion of the fall with the arrow, Commodus for acting at fence, Caracalla for brainish chariots, and the like. This seemeth incredible, unto those that realise not the principle, that the mind of man, is to a greater extent cheered and tonic by profiting in small(a) things, than by rest at a stay, in great.